#387 Sandro Monetti (Celeb Journalist)

Published: Dec. 27, 2013, 11:07 p.m.

b"Sandro Monetti is a leading international celebrity journalist, TV personality and event host who has interviewed all the biggest stars in Hollywood. The LA based Brit is the creator and director of the number one rated Hollywood tour on Trip Advisor, his Celebrity Inisder Movie Locations Tour of LA. He has toured his smash hit autiobiographical one man stage show \\u2018Clooney Cowell Pitt and Me: Amusing Encounters with the A-List\\u2019 and written two bestselling books, biographies of movie stars Mickey Rourke and Colin Firth. Hosting the first annual Next Generation Entrepreneurship and Global Crowdfunding Forum taught him all about crowdfunding and he used funds raised on Indiegogo to finance a stage version of the multi-award winning short film he wrote and directed, Les Miserables parody, \\u2018Miserable Lesbians\\u2019.


Richard Gibbs (born in 1955 in Bay Village, Ohio) is an American film composer and music producer whose credits include the films Sweet Hearts Dance, Dr. Dolittle, Big Momma's House, The Book of Stars, Queen of the Damned and the television series Battlestar Galactica. Gibbs was the keyboard player for the New Wave band Oingo Boingo from 1980 to 1984. He was also a session player, performing on over 150 albums for artists as diverse as War, Tom Waits, Boy Meets Girl, Living in a Box, Robert Palmer, and Aretha Franklin. He also started with Michael Jochum the band Zuma II, which had an eponymously titled record released by Pasha/CBS Records. He has appeared live with Korn, The Staples, Chaka Khan, and Oingo Boingo.


Katelyn Benton began her professional music career as a pre-teen, playing piano in shopping malls and performing her original songs in many of Denver\\u2019s acclaimed music venues before she could drive. Benton graduated from Berklee College of Music in Boston before moving to Los Angeles to further expand her career in writing, singing and performing music. In 2009, Benton independently released a 5 song EP (Once), won the award for \\u201cBest Music Video\\u201d at the JP Folks Awards in Nashville (\\u201cImpossible Love\\u201d), and celebrated by running 100 miles straight (no joke). In 2010, Benton teamed up with film composer Scott Nickoley (SOUTH PARK) to combine her original lyrics and piano melodies with Nickoley\\u2019s cinematic vision and arrangements for Benton\\u2019s upcoming full-length album (title TBD)."